"...this book contains 109 complete alphabets that are standouts in any context. Selected from four famous typographic albums of the nineteenth century, these letter designs represent great alphabets of earlier centuries and striking alphabets new in the last century. All are extravagant and wildly inventive. The 76 upper-case and 33 lower-case alphabets comprise animal and tree alphabets, human-figure and devils alphabets, pictorial and architectural-sculptural alphabets, "musical" alphabets, outre? Roman and Gothics, shadowed, outline, foliated, ribbon, script, lapidary, and many other alphabets."--back cover. Collection of 190 decorative fonts for use in graphic design projects.